Worksheet - Movie Screening of Waiting For Godot

 This blog is response to an assigned blog by Dr. Dilip Barad sir on Waiting for Godot by  Samule Beckett.

          Waiting for Godot 

Samule Beckett 

Samule Barclay Beckett was an lrish novelist, playwright, Short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. He wrote in both French and English.  Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in literature. 

Waiting For Godot

 Waiting For Godot  is  a play in which  two character, Vladimir and Estragon.  two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped - over slave. this play is Beckett's translation of his own original French language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled  "a tragicomedy in two acts."  There is only one scene both acts. Two man are waiting on a country road by a tree.This play show the meaningless of life, absurdity and boredom in peoples lives. 

This play is considered among the three greatest plays  with Hamlet, Oedipus Rex. The play is read from various points of view, Existentialism, religion, political, Deconstructive, psychoanalytical. 

we are discuss some question 

In both Acts, evening falls into night and moon rises. How would you like to interpret this 'coming of night and moon' when actually they are Waiting for Godot.

Beckett wants to highlight the indifference nature. As nature never waits for anyone. Natural process of environment was never stop.  Similarly in this play Vladimir and Estragon Waiting for Godot. Night and Moon both signifies as death and hope. Both scene ends with rising of moon. night symbolized as darkness of hope.  Vladimir and Estragon are whole day waiting for  Godot but he was never comes. 

The director feels the setting with some debris. Can you read any meaning in the contours of debris in the setting of the play? 

 The play is written around second world war so we can see the effect of  world war.  Debris  represent of destroyed  material world of human. But in Michael Lindsay Hogg  movie  debris read many view. This move is released in 2001.  This debris was remember many more incident like earthquake, war. In our today time Russia and Ukraine war. Debris also shows nothing is permanent in this world,  meaningless of the materia world,  meaninglessness of life, nothingness of life.

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